Woody Allen’s Movies

Woody Allen has made over forty movies in over four decades. They range in quality, but he has made more great and very good films than any American — certainly more than any American writer-director. By my count, he has made nine great movies and eleven very good movies.

Anyway, this is my back of the envelope, Sunday morning assessment of Woody Allen’s oeuvre. Feel free to take issue and offer your own assessments.

OK (Movies that have their problems but are enjoyable and are, on balance, pretty good movies): BANANAS, EVERTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY, SEPTEMBER, ANOTHER WOMAN, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, MELINDA AND MELINDA, CASSANDRA’S DREAM

NOT GOOD: INTERIORS, STARDUST MEMORIES, ALICE, SHADOWS AND FOG, EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU, SWEET AND LOWDOWN, SMALL TIME CROOKS, CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, WHATEVER WORKS, YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, TO ROME WITH LOVE

HORRIBLE: CELEBRITY, ANYTHING ELSE.

As for the new movie, BLUE JASMINE, it comes out on Friday and I’ll reserve expressing an opinion until then. But I think you can probably figure out what I think of it based on what I’ve said here.